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when -- we used to have a meeting every morning in chicago. i remember sitting in this room, it was made in september or october or maybe around this time and every morning we would have a meeting of the senior staff. i remember looking out the window of a high-rise and thinking will i ever do this again? everybody coming together and you plan out what the point to happen during the day. at night i would come home and turn on the tv. you have the meeting and everybody scatters and does what they're going to do. and you hear what the candidate is going to do that day and then i would come home at night and see how the day when my turn on the tv. umc the events in some faraway city playing out the way you had talked about in the morning. it was kind of magical. i think that i thought i was pretty much done then, so i decided at that moment i was not going to do 2012. my son was now year-old. he is the obama baby. i second son was born about the 120-day mark of the new administration. so we had a lot of stuff going on and home, too. but when i lo
when -- we used to have a meeting every morning in chicago. i remember sitting in this room, it was made in september or october or maybe around this time and every morning we would have a meeting of the senior staff. i remember looking out the window of a high-rise and thinking will i ever do this again? everybody coming together and you plan out what the point to happen during the day. at night i would come home and turn on the tv. you have the meeting and everybody scatters and does what...
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caller: good morning. it is always a pleasure to talk to the people at c-span. my comment with ann and the republicans -- it is amazing how she can just ignore the civil-rights movement and the voter rights bill. the voting rights bill actually changed the seven democrats in south carolina, mississippi, alabama, tennessee. a lot of states. 97% of the republicans in south carolina used to be democrats before black people got the right to vote. that is an amazing statistic that i didn't hear anybody talking about. everyone is talking about how we to turn everything to the state, ithout regard as to what the states have done in the history. she ignored that also in her book. the state has vagrancy laws. corporations have continued to enslave black people way past slavery. even douglas blackmun has written a book about that. host: have you read her book? caller: no. guest: the 1976 election. look at the dark area. that is the democrats for jimmy carter. it was the south he carried. host: a question from "the n
caller: good morning. it is always a pleasure to talk to the people at c-span. my comment with ann and the republicans -- it is amazing how she can just ignore the civil-rights movement and the voter rights bill. the voting rights bill actually changed the seven democrats in south carolina, mississippi, alabama, tennessee. a lot of states. 97% of the republicans in south carolina used to be democrats before black people got the right to vote. that is an amazing statistic that i didn't hear...
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caller: good morning. we remember when obama came into office. i am shocked at how the media has given the republicans a pass. when bush came into office, $5.1 on had left him million surplus. he gave it to his billionaire buddy is. in 2003, bush save the republican job creators 3.5 trillion dollars for jobs. that is a whole year president obama, then senator obama -- guest: your command of the numbers is terrific. the question of media is linked to strong voices. there is a mainstream established medium. there is this idea of of the corporate balance. something that has been written about. the earthne said that was flat, the media would report bold sides as equally relevant and true instead of calling out the flat earth person and say, wait a minute. we see a lot of false equivalentce. i recommend this to you. he is no liberal progressive. he is more center. there was a book about congress and the breakdown of the governments. there is an important section on the affairs of the media to call out the false truths when they see it. they fact check
caller: good morning. we remember when obama came into office. i am shocked at how the media has given the republicans a pass. when bush came into office, $5.1 on had left him million surplus. he gave it to his billionaire buddy is. in 2003, bush save the republican job creators 3.5 trillion dollars for jobs. that is a whole year president obama, then senator obama -- guest: your command of the numbers is terrific. the question of media is linked to strong voices. there is a mainstream...
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caller: good morning. what can president obama or governor romney due to work with the next congress? do think this will lead to a greater assertion of executive authority in the next term? guest: thank you, john. i did not know i would be facing the toughest questioners. congressional approval is at an all-time low. it is up there with paris hilton and the communist party of russia. i think we need to step back and understand many people in this country see the political system as broken. others -- elizabeth warren -- have spoken house some money have seen the system rigged against them. there is a few that those who dislike government for the past 40 years have a stake in diminishing the reputation of government, of congress. i would argue that we have seen a movement in these last 40 years to debase role of government. callback and read the book on lyndon johnson. the use or abuse of the filibuster has been used or abuse in the last 10 days or three years more than once in the 1960's 197's combined by t
caller: good morning. what can president obama or governor romney due to work with the next congress? do think this will lead to a greater assertion of executive authority in the next term? guest: thank you, john. i did not know i would be facing the toughest questioners. congressional approval is at an all-time low. it is up there with paris hilton and the communist party of russia. i think we need to step back and understand many people in this country see the political system as broken....
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to you. >> good morning. i voted for obama because governor romney is all over the place. one day it is one thing and the following day is something else. i cannot trust this man at all. i can't believe that people can trust him. the business that he had, and destroying companies, putting people out of work. in chicago right now, there is people on strike because the company 10 years ago, the people had to train chinese and japanese and people begging him to go there and he did not go there. i don't see how people can vote for him. it is incredible. >> thanks for the call, another early voter. dodge democrats are counting. michele obama had 6800 supporters and she ended by saying i want you to follow the staff to the hamilton county board of elections and vote now. it is critical for both sides to get as many in the bank as possible. 61% means republicans and independents, voting to repeal that. they voted to send a message to repeal obama care. independence are critical. the judge these things as best they c
to you. >> good morning. i voted for obama because governor romney is all over the place. one day it is one thing and the following day is something else. i cannot trust this man at all. i can't believe that people can trust him. the business that he had, and destroying companies, putting people out of work. in chicago right now, there is people on strike because the company 10 years ago, the people had to train chinese and japanese and people begging him to go there and he did not go...